Quotes About Attention

The brain can be divided roughly into two hemispheres of unequal function, and patients can get strokes in either. The hemispheres contain separate "spotlights" for visual attention. The left hemisphere's spotlight is small, capable of paying attention only to items on the right side of the visual field.

people don't pay attention to boring things

Do one thing at a time

if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.

The fact is, the amount of TV a child should watch before the age of 2 is zero.

The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—and retained.

attention Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things.

Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While

The messages that do grab your attention are connected to memory, interest, and awareness.

The brain cannot multitask

Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things. • The brain's attentional "spotlight" can focus on only one thing at a time: no multitasking. • We are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail. • Emotional arousal helps the brain learn. • Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.

Because we don't fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and drive at the same time, even though it is literally impossible for our brains to multitask when it comes to paying attention.

We were not sitting in a classroom for eight hours at a stretch. We were not sitting in a cubicle for eight hours at a stretch. If we sat around the Serengeti for eight hours—

Loss of sleep hurts attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary. Exercisers outperform couch potatoes in tests that measure long-term memory, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving skill.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra ' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade.

He paid attention to what was going on around him. Not for what he could get out of the situation. But for what he could give. This is the difference between a life of success and a life of significance. It's the difference between a quick win and a true victory.

People say I love you all the time - when they say, 'take an umbrella, it's raining,' or 'hurry back,' or even 'watch out, you'll break your neck.' There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.

Satan would willingly lose every battle to us, so long as he could successfully steal the attention that belongs to God.

There was a shift in consciousness underway, but by the end of '67 I felt like we'd gone too far. I actually considered doing something spectacularly terrible to get America's attention on what was going on with us, because we were sort of driving society over a cliff.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

chacun souhaitait le voir, et ceux qui, habitués par le passé aux émotions violentes, ne ressentaient que le poids de l'ennui, se réjouissaient d'avoir en leur présence un objet capable de retenir leur attention. Rien ne venait jamais échauffer son visage d'une pâleur mortelle, pourtant doté d'une forme régulière et de beaux traits, ni le rouge de la modestie ou le feu plus intense de la passion […].